A former police officer was convicted of illegally selling firearms to people he knew were felons, officials said this week.
Kevin R. Lumpkin, 29, of North Olmsted, is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 29.
A jury convicted him after a weeklong trial of selling a Hi-Point .45-caliber rifle and a Ruger .380-caliber pistol on different occasions to people he knew were convicted of felonies and therefore forbidden from possessing a firearm.
These sales took place between 2011 and 2013, when Lumpkin was a North Randall police officer, according to trial testimony.
According to a criminal complaint, Lumpkin, while in uniform, got into a fight with one of the gun purchasers in 2012 and fired his service weapon at the wall.
When the FBI asked Lumpkin why there was a bullet hole in the wall, he replied: “why would I say that?” When agents asked Lumpkin to be honest, he replied, “what does being honest get me?”